1 Lira Cortemaggiore - n.26

Campo di Concentramento P.G. N.26 at Cortemaggiore, in the Po Valley near Piacenza, was one of Italy's internment camps for Allied prisoners of war during the Second World War. Camps of this type issued their own internal scrip to prevent prisoners from accumulating Italian currency that might facilitate escape — the lira denominations were usable only within the wire. P.M. 3200 is the postal military district designation, which helps date or locate the camp's administrative structure rather than the note itself.

Italian POW camp scrip is among the most perishable printed material of the war. Paper quality was poor, few prisoners kept it, and repatriation meant it was discarded.